Yep, I moved where the text box was in the wpf stack and all is right with the world. :)

Thanks Mark, I tried that with no luck. I found the issue the value of Alert_Level was not numeric. Once I changed it to an int everything worked fine. Thanks for your help. :)

Hi, you must convert the SelectedItem of the ListBox into the string you need. You can do this by binding it to another property (of your viewmodel) and in the new property's setter, you can transfer the converted string-value to your TextBox.Text-property. Alternatively you must code the SelectionChanged-event of the ListBox. The type of the SelectedItem depends on the given Items (sounds a bit stupid, I know). If you fill the ListBox at designtime, you will probably have something like <ListBox ... > <ListBox.Items> <ListBoxItem Content="one" /> <ListBoxItem Content="two" /> <ListBoxItem Content="three" /> </ListBox.Items> </ListBox> In this case, the SelectedItem is of type ListBoxItem. If you e. g. provide a List<string> as ItemsSource, you get a string as SelectedItem. As mentioned by Abhinav S you might want to consider using the IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem property. Cheers Jürgen

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Don't know if you'll get this response or not. I have the Dell XPS M1210 (Model before the 1330). Let me say that you definitely don't want to deal with such a small screen when working with Visual Studio. With the toolbars on the sides you barely have any space to code. When I got the Laptop I planned on using it exclusively at home and on the road...but after a month or so I caved in and bought an XPS 410 desktop w/ a 20" monitor.

I don't do Office Interop, but I seem to remember something about using the lowest Primary Interop Assemblies, like Office 2000, and they'll work with the higher versions of Office, so long as you don't want to use any of the new functionality that those versions offer. For example, write your application using the Office 2000 PIA's and it should work with Office 2000, XP, and 2003. I could be wrong though. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

Thanks Dave, U the Man:-D